| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6173046 |
Customer group billing |
January 9, 2001 |
| A method and system in which calls made by customers who are members of a group of customers having a group calling plan, but who have separate billing accounts, are priced based on the group calling plan and on the usage by other members of the group. Typical groups may include customer |
| 6125173 |
Customer profile based customized messaging |
September 26, 2000 |
| A method and system of telephone call processing that provides information to customers while telephone calls are made. Summary information for a customer is stored. A call from the customer is received alt a network switch. The network switch transmits information identifying the custom |
| 6058170 |
Telephone billing with summary information |
May 2, 2000 |
| A method and system for automatically generating telephone bills that include customer defined or requested summary information. Customer specific data including pricing data and summary parameters are stored. A plurality of records, each record describing a telephone call, are gener |
| 5987108 |
Telephone billing with customer-defined budgeting |
November 16, 1999 |
| A method and system of telephone call processing that provides direct control of telephone usage based on customer established budgets. According to one aspect of the present invention, customer specific information including pricing data and budget parameters for a customer are stor |
| 5982864 |
Telephone billing with customized billing information |
November 9, 1999 |
| A method and system for automatically generating telephone bills that include customer defined or requested billing information. Customer specific data including billing parameters for a customer is stored. A record describing a telephone call between the customer and a party is gene |
| 5915006 |
Telephone line aggregated billing |
June 22, 1999 |
| A method and system in which calls made on two or more phone lines of a customer are aggregated for billing and discount billing plans to which the customer subscribes are applied to the aggregated phone usage of the customer. In order to price a call made over a network by a customer of |
| 5844972 |
Customer profile based telephone card billing |
December 1, 1998 |
| A method and system in which calls made by a customer using a calling card are billed in accordance with the customer's subscribed calling plans. In order to price a call made over a network by a customer of the network, information specifying a billing plan of the customer is stored. A |
| 5551029 |
Method for associating integrity maintenance constraints with data object classes in an object-o |
August 27, 1996 |
| A technique is provided for the association of constraints with data object classes in an object-oriented database. Given a constraint comprising zero or more quantifiers followed by a quantifier-free boolean expression, a non-primitive reference expression is identified in the boolean |
| 5365430 |
Method for parsing images |
November 15, 1994 |
| Parsing of partially orderable sets of symbols is achieved by first forming a total order of the given terminal symbols. The relationships between the terminal symbols are formulated, and the given grammar is broken up into a set of production rules. Based on the production rules, a dete |
| 5350303 |
Method for accessing information in a computer |
September 27, 1994 |
| An electronic library which comprises a user interface such as a computer screen, a speaker, a mouse and/or a keyboard; a processor for handling communication with the user and for responding to user requests; and a data store. The data store maintains scanned segments of video data, aud |
| 5134711 |
Computer with intelligent memory system |
July 28, 1992 |
| A programmable memory system that interfaces with a computer's control and data manipulation units, and is capable of performing the manipulation, bookkeeping, and checking that would normally be performed by the computer. The memory system comprises active structure modules that are |
| 4930072 |
Method for computing transitive closure |
May 29, 1990 |
| A method and apparatus for creating a transitive closure of a database when the database is stored on a secondary storage in the form of links connecting nodes. The method consists of partitioning the database, transferring one partition at a time from the secondary storage to the ma |
